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Bivalvia | Sphaerioida | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Sphaeriinae | Sphaerium

species Sphaerium argentinum (d’Orbigny, 1835): synonymy

1 specimen

Synonymy

Musculium argentinium Cooley & Ó Foighil, 2000

‘d’Orbigny’ Cooley & Ó Foighil, 2000. Invert. Biol. 119(3): 302.
(error for Cyclas argentina d’Orbigny, 1835)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Musculium argentinium [sic]Cooley & Ó Foighil (2000)
Musculium argentinumKorniushin & Glaubrecht (2002), Simone (2006), Rumi et al. (2008), Schultheiß et al. (2008), IUCN (2011), Clewing et al. (2013), Pereira et al. (2014), Fuentealba-Jara et al. (2017), Ituarte (2020), Saito et al. (2022)
Sphaerium (Musculium) argentinumLee & Ó Foighil (2003), Stunžėnas et al. (2011), Bespalaya et al. (2023)
Sphaerium argentinumBogan (2010), Bespalaya et al. (2017)

 
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